Bug#629107: hydrogen: No text in User Manual (Was: hydrogen packaging)

Jaromír Mikeš mira.mikes at gmail.com
Sun Nov 13 16:22:29 UTC 2016


2016-11-13 11:55 GMT+01:00 James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org>:
> Control: tags -1 patch
>
> Hi,
>
> On 12/11/16 11:41, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
>> 2016-11-12 11:58 GMT+01:00  <trebmuh at tuxfamily.org>:
>>
>>> while you're working around the Hydrogen packaging, can I humbly
>>> ask you to have a look at this bug :
>>> https://bugs.debian.org/629107 ?
>>>
>>> There is willingness upstream (which I'm part of regarding the
>>> manual) to update and improve the bundled update manual and not
>>> having it displayed/accessible in the GUI is frustrating.
>>>
>>> As said in bug 629107, I've been looking at it but am not
>>> knowledgeable/competent to resolve it. Help here would be
>>> appreciated.
>>
>> Hi Olivier,
>>
>> I know about this bug and I am not ignoring it.
>> I already tried fix it in past without success :(
>> Hopefully some more skilled mate from team will give a hand with it.
>
> How about the attached patch?
>
> I think the original purpose of that code in debian/rules was to force
> the manual to always be rebuilt. Unfortunately it moves 'manual.docbook'
> out of the way (as if it was autogenerated) but it looks like this is
> the master manual which is directly edited.
>
> My alternate implementation simply touches the master manuals which
> should hopefully force everything to be rebuilt as well.

Works perfectly! Thank you James!

mira



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